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Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-dubious-honor dept.

No France writes "The two ways for an email virus to spread is to use an exploit, or entice the user to click the link/executable. Of course the latter is the easiest, and is the most effective when used in conjunction with a celebrity's name. Despite the recent Jackson suicide emails, Britney Spears is the one to recently edge out Bill Gates as the top virus celebrity. The top 10 (in descending order): Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson."

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  1. CowboyNeal! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    'nuff said.

  2. A little ironic... by ChrisF79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't it ironic that to trick a user into clicking a fake email, they use the fakest of all celebrities?

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    1. Re:A little ironic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      It's just like rain on your wedding day.

    2. Re:A little ironic... by sakri · · Score: 2, Funny

      irony? that's just what's missing from these virus authors today... if it was me, I'd use far cooler names like jessica simps0WN j00 n00b!!! ;)

    3. Re:A little ironic... by /ASCII · · Score: 4, Funny

      Britney is not fake, she is really smart person. Check out her guide to semiconductor physics, if you doubt her abilities. I actually read some of her work while studying for my semiconductor finals.

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    4. Re:A little ironic... by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are probably wrong. I don't listen, but I am sure she is not a fake celebrity. She is a real celebrity, people like to talk about her and know more about her and such.

      She is a fake musician/singer, that is probably true.

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    5. Re:A little ironic... by kurzweilfreak · · Score: 2, Funny

      And are you thinking about me when you fuuuuuuck her.... Oh wait...

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    6. Re:A little ironic... by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 2, Funny

      #define spoon for (int i=0; i1000; i++) { fork(); }

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  3. Link, please? by cuzality · · Score: 5, Funny


    Please post a link where we can read these emails.

  4. No big surprise by moz25 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if I have to choose between "see Britney Spears naked" and "see Bill Gates" naked, I'll pick the first worm any day!

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    1. Re:No big surprise by zoloto · · Score: 1, Funny
      Well, if I have to choose between "see Britney Spears naked" and "see Bill Gates" naked, I'll pick the first worm any day!
      If you're implying that Britney Spears has a worm I'll be puking right about now.
    2. Re:No big surprise by garcia · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh come on! You cannot tell me that this photo doesn't make you want to see more?

      Jeez, what kind of geek are you? Porn is porn! ;-)

  5. Impression of random internet user by dannyitc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hot_britney_sex_video.exe for free?? And all I have to do is click yes? Awesome!

  6. Re:More intelligent software or users? by Dunbal · · Score: 1, Funny

    THIS IS WHAT YOUR IT DEPARTMENT HAS TO DEAL WITH!

    Well there has to be SOME price for being able to spend 90% of your time playing MMOG's and downloading pr0n at work... :-)

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  7. The top 10 (in descending order): by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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  8. I hate it when I get a virus from Britney by geoffrobinson · · Score: 1, Funny

    Although many people wouldn't mind.

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  9. Re:Oh great by wed128 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple People.

  10. Gives to meaning to her song by dgos78 · · Score: 1, Funny

    you know the one... "Toxic"

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  11. Lemme Guess by TubeSteak · · Score: 1, Funny
    I'll give you a rough idea of the e-mails contents:

    1. Britney Spears - See Her Sex Tape
    2. Bill Gates - See Him Spank Naughty Steve Jobs
    3. Jennifer Lopez: See #1
    4. Shakira: See #1
    5. Osama Bin Laden: We Finally Found Him!*
    6. Michael Jackson: Read OJ's Letter of Congrats
    7. Bill Clinton: How He Plans To Run For President... Again!**
    8. Anna Kournikova: See #1
    9. Paris Hilton: Watch Her Snort Cocaine!
    10. Pamela Anderson: Watch Her Suck Off A Donkey!

      *Just kidding, we haven't really found him yet.
      **Cause this is /. - I know he can't run again

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  12. Re:Oh great by daikokatana · · Score: 2, Funny
    Nude shots of Britney? Why does the following Simpson quote enter my mind: "Ze goggles - they do nothing!!!"

    Why this obsession with Britney (or other celebs) - if she was just someone you knew and you saw here naked you'd look away.

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  13. The irony there is that the song wasn't ironic by ianscot · · Score: 2, Funny
    Okay, but that song drove me nuts. When it rains on your wedding day, that's not ironic, it's just disappointing. (If you'd set up a gazebo to prevent the effects of rain, but then the system of drinking fountains in it had a problem that wound up sprinkling all your guests despite it being a clear sunny day, that would be ironic.) A free ride when you've already paid is, similarly, not really "ironic." Argh.

    As far as what it is with Brittney, repeat after me: "Lowest Common Denominator." "White Trash Schadenfreude." There's some fascination with the squalid quality there -- poverty of spirit despite all the money and fame. She's like a punctured silicone implant lying on the hood of a rusty pimped Civic. And I do mean "pimped."

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  14. Isn't this obvious? by J+Barnes · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's some sense of satisfaction I get in knowing that every time a person ogles, clicks, downloads or otherwise interfaces with that pizza-faced mess known as Brittany Spears, there's a good chance their computer will catch the clap.

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  15. Re:sad by Filip22012005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    i never get any e-mail viruses, but when I do [...]

    erm...

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  16. Say what? by catdevnull · · Score: 2, Funny

    Osama bin Laden is a celebrity? ...I guess he is on Al Jazeera

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  17. I find it rather disturbing... by EphemeralPhart · · Score: 3, Funny

    in that I recognize every one of those individuals. I can even put a face to most of them !

    What gamut of innate garbage must my brain contain beyond that...

    I'm disgusted by the cesspool that is my mind and, for once, very conscious of the torrents of crap being sluised into it every moment.

    And here I am reading slashdot.

  18. Re:Virus Drills by xMilkmanDanx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, pretty soon they don't check their email at all and productivity skyrockets!

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  19. At the CIA by jdepons · · Score: 3, Funny

    Agent: "Cheif, we interceped another email from Osama Bin Laden"

    Chief: "We got him this time. Open it asap"

    Agent: "I don't understand, all it did was change my home page to xxxarabia.com"

    Chief: "Damn you Bin Laden!"

  20. Britney? No worries! by cburman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Britney? Whew! That's a Windows virus! Now, if it had been Natalie Portman (petrified and naked) I would have been worried.